It all started January 2014 when McIntyre overheard her mother
and grandmother talking about a story they heard on the radio about a
25-year-old man her age in need of a kidney transplant.

They said this man had lost his father to brain cancer in 2012
and had had his house burned down on Christmas Day
2011, and McIntire's mother commented that if it weren't for her health
problems, she would give him a kidney. She had type-O blood, which is the
universal donor.

"It was just like one thing after another for them,"
McIntyre said. "I was like, 'Well, I'm type-O and I don't have any health
problems.'"

The next day, she called to volunteer her kidney, and the
testing started shortly thereafter, she said. McIntyre didn't want to meet the
man, Danny Robinson, until she knew she was a match, fearing that she would get
his hopes up, she said.

PHOTO: Ashley McIntyre's baby is due in June.

When they finally did meet, in March, McIntyre was
nervous, she said. And though she thought he was cute, she never dreamed they
would date.

"As soon as we started talking,
it was like our families had known each other forever," McIntyre said.

Dr. Malay Shah of the University ofKentuckyTransplant
Center told ABC News the surgery happened in April. He explained that Robinson
had akidney diseasecalled IgAnephropathy, which put
him into fullkidney failurewhen he was 23 because his immune
system attacked his kidneys, preventing them from properly filtering blood and
removing toxins.